Planned Parenthood’s Obama rally reveals a lot

Published September 4, 2012 4:00am ET



CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Women dressed as vaginas milled about the parking lot of the NASCAR Hall of Fame where the old and young alike grabbed up the free Planned Parenthood condoms while an emcee dressed as a birth-control dispenser led the crowd in chants.

Abortion provider and lobbying powerhouse Planned Parenthood held a rally for Obama just outside the convention center Tuesday afternoon, and it highlighted a few important themes: (1) the centrality of abortion in the Democratic Party, (2) the extremeness of the party’s abortion position, and (3) the rank deception at the heart of the party’s war-on-women talk.

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